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The Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP) and its partners in the industry-wide coalition established to assist seafarers and their families with the humanitarian aspects of piracy incidents have welcomed the news of the release of the 22 crew members on the Iceberg 1 after 1000 days in captivity in Somalia.

A worker was fatally wounded while carrying out maintenance work on the installation vessel, Sea Jack, at the Keppel Verolme shipyard in Rotterdam last week.

In a statement released Dec. 20, the service provider A2SEA described the incident as a "serious accident".

"We are deeply sorry to have to inform that an employee of our supplier has lost his life. Further information is pending the investigation of the circumstances surrounding the accident," A2SEA's CEO Jens Frederik Hansan said in a statement.

Fifteen sailors were rescued Sunday evening after their freighter began to sink near the mouth of the Yangtze River, the local maritime authority reported.

The 98-meter-long freighter, which was laden with a cargo of mineral sands, sent out a distress call around 7:50 pm after it began to teeter due to strong winds, according to the Ministry of Transport's Donghai Rescue Bureau and the Shanghai Maritime Safety Administration.

The administration dispatched four rescue vessels as soon as it received the call, according to a statement from the administration.

DUBAI // Half of the crew of a Vietnamese ship that has been stranded in Jebel Ali Port since August will soon head home after finally being given permission by the vessel's owners.

The decision to allow nine of the 18 crew members to leave comes just weeks after the seamen, who have been living on charity handouts, hung signs on their vessel saying "Let us go home" and "No food, no salary".

Somali pirates release longest-held hostages
By Abdiqani Hassan, Reuters
Posted at 12/24/2012 9:05 AM | Updated as of 12/24/2012 9:05 AMhttp://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/12/24/12/somali-pirates...MV Iceberg 1
BOSASSO, Somalia - A ship and its crew of 22 sailors held by Somali pirates for almost three years have been freed after a two-week-long siege by maritime police, the government of the breakaway region of Puntland said on Sunday.

SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- A Hong Kong-registered merchant ship has rescued all of the 17 South Korean and Myanmarese seamen from a sunken South Korean vessel early Sunday, South Korean maritime police said.

All the 17 crewmen of the 2,518-ton South Korean vessel were moved to a lifeboat late Saturday when the vessel sank in waters 185 miles northeast of the Philippines, a maritime police spokesman said.